 | Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 pages
...shadowy kine ; Oh, Keith of Ravelston, The sorrows of thy line ! S. Dobell. ccxv. TO MILTON. ILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour ; England hath...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. W. Wordsworth. CCXVI. ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER. UCH have I travelled in the realms of... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1866 - 408 pages
...1S02. MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen ( if stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside,...common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC. ONCE did she hold the gorgeous East in fee ; And was the... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - 1866 - 540 pages
...like the Son of Man than that. Do you remember WordsWorth's beautiful lines to Milton? Thy soul was as a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose...godliness : and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on ik I do .not know any thing of Alfieri's " Life." By whom is it written ? The misfortunes of genius,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt, Samuel Adams Lee - 1867 - 372 pages
...hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; O raise us up, return to us again, And give us manners,...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. * So headed by the author. England had then made its shortlived peace with France under the Consulate... | |
 | 1867 - 158 pages
...without quoting the noble lines of Wordsworth : " Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour. Eeturn to us again, And give us manners, virtue, freedom,...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." ARCHBISHOP WHATELY. Of all those who have discussed the " Sabbath question," no one has written with... | |
 | 1868 - 490 pages
...Son of Man than that. Do you remember Wordsworth's beautiful lines to Milton ? — Thy soul was as a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose...godliness : and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did Iny. , I do not know anything of Alfieri's ' Life.' By whom is it written ? The misfortunes... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pages
...self-sacrifice ; The confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live SONNET TO MILTON. MILTON, thou shouldst be living...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay. ODE ON THE INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD.* THERE... | |
 | University of Oxford - 1869 - 314 pages
...Wordsworth hail him in language which for simple majesty is only equalled by Milton's own : — " Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay." And may we not write Wordsworth's name for Milton's, and leave the sonnet as true... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 pages
...and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh 1 raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners,...; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself didst lay. BOWLES. TffOMZS CLARKSOS, Off THE FIXAL PASSING OF THE Dl. fOJi TOE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE-TRADE,... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1869 - 332 pages
...heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. \Ve are selfish men. Oh ! raise us up, return to us again,...common way In cheerful godliness, and yet thy heart The lowest duties on herself didst lay." A word in addition on Milton's religious creed. It was by no means... | |
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MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are... 
